After watching Gunbuster for the very first time last month (good God, that final scene...), I realized...maybe I should give the entire giant robot genre a second chance.
I just didn't feel the genre was for me. Though I did have my exceptions--for example, I adored Gurren Lagann, and it's still one of my five favorite anime of all time.
But I knew that show was meant to be a celebration of the genre, and to a lesser extent masculinity itself.
Another exception that I think counts? Full Metal Panic. Loved the original, Fumoffu, and The Second Raid, even if Invisible Victory was kind of disappointing.
Already seen it for my own reasons--I was a huge fan of Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad as a kid.
And so was its English dub director, Clifford Chapin, to the point of bringing his old toys to stand on his desk while they recorded for it. In fact, I asked Greg Ayres (who is in the dub) about this personally at a con several years ago--he confirmed it's all true.
This is also why Alexis Kerib's voice was done as a Tim Curry impression. There's even a nice little Kilokahn reference added to the dialogue in the last episode--normally I hate dub changes, but this one, I'll allow it!
Oh, and yes, because of this anime, I watched the actual original Gridman show. Man, that show got weird--but now I have proof that Syber-Squad was pretty accurate to it!
I really should get into Gundam.
After watching Gunbuster for the very first time last month (good God, that final scene...), I realized...maybe I should give the entire giant robot genre a second chance.
Mobile Suit Gundam (Gundam 0079) has aged well. Start there. The compilation movies are good if you don't feel like diving into the whole series.
That's exactly where I was going to start, the 1979 original.
Newer Series are meh but the core stuff is an intriguing bag of showing the corruption of large global government over time.
Why did you get filtered by the giant robot? Also asides gundam, I think you should dai guard next.
I just didn't feel the genre was for me. Though I did have my exceptions--for example, I adored Gurren Lagann, and it's still one of my five favorite anime of all time.
But I knew that show was meant to be a celebration of the genre, and to a lesser extent masculinity itself.
Another exception that I think counts? Full Metal Panic. Loved the original, Fumoffu, and The Second Raid, even if Invisible Victory was kind of disappointing.
Tessa Testarossa does not get enough love.
I want to recommend gridman/dynazenon then. Made by the same staff and is just as hopeful.
Already seen it for my own reasons--I was a huge fan of Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad as a kid.
And so was its English dub director, Clifford Chapin, to the point of bringing his old toys to stand on his desk while they recorded for it. In fact, I asked Greg Ayres (who is in the dub) about this personally at a con several years ago--he confirmed it's all true.
This is also why Alexis Kerib's voice was done as a Tim Curry impression. There's even a nice little Kilokahn reference added to the dialogue in the last episode--normally I hate dub changes, but this one, I'll allow it!
Oh, and yes, because of this anime, I watched the actual original Gridman show. Man, that show got weird--but now I have proof that Syber-Squad was pretty accurate to it!
Watch Bravern from this season if you haven't yet, it's really good.
Has the homoeroticism toned down?
I will. I've heard a lot of fun things about it.
https://youtu.be/kfPpvzf54Og? Mobile Suit Gundam (0083) was my favorite growing up.